What Are Measurements?

The Importance of Measurements

In modern times, people tend to associate Godliness with spirituality and less so with materiality. Indeed, when considering the spiritual versus the material, it would seem that the spiritual, because it is harder to grasp and define, would be a better representation for the ineffable and ungraspable nature of God. However, in reality, God is no more spiritual than He is material and both dimensions of reality equally serve Him, and both equally fall short of capturing His essence. It should therefore not come as a surprise that the first instruction regarding the fabrication of the Tabernacle, the Mishkan, where “I may dwell among them” is, “They shall make an ark of acacia wood, two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high.”